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A44613 The sufficiency of the spirits teaching without humane learning a treatise tending to prove humane learning to be no help to the spirituall understanding of the word of God ... / by Samuel How. How, Samuel.; Kiffin, William, 1616-1701. 1655 (1655) Wing H2952; ESTC R24385 44,603 49

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David without Sauls Arm or only with a Sling and a stone through the Name of the Lord may so wound great Goliah of Gath the enemy of God and his people as that he may receive his deadly wound and lye groveling on the ground to the dismayment of all the Host of the Philistins and great rejoycing of the Israel of God and this the Stone that is he wen out of the Mountain without hands is only able to do Therefore let all that fear the Lord take heed that they lean not to their own wisdome but so much the more that any ●f us have wisdome and Understanding Memory and such ●ike naturall parts above other so much the more let us be watchfull and carefull over our selves as knowing that the h Rom. 8.7 Wisdome of the flesh is enmity against God and is ready to butt against the Spirit And now to draw to a conclusion of all in the words of the Prophet i Esay 44.25 The Lord frustrateth the tokens of the lyars and maketh the Diviners mad turneth wise men backward and maketh their knowledge foolishness If any shall except against the matter for the rudeness of it as that it is without form or learning all such are to know that it is but suitable to the whole argument and that if it should be otherwise I should condemn that in practise which I justifie in words and so make my self a Trespasser Thus I commit this my labour with all those that out of love to the truth shall seek information in this matter to the blessing of the most High and remain an unfaigned well-willer of all them that love the Lord Jesus in sincerity The 25. day of the first moneth 1639. WHat How how now hath How such learning found To throw Arts curious Image to the ground Cambridge and Oxford may their glory now Vail to a Cobler if they know but H●w Though big with Art they cannot over-top The Spirits teaching in a Coblers shop Reader if thou an humane Artist be Let Humane Learning be no Judge for thee Lay down thine Arts then try this Coblers end And see if it be by the Spirit pen'd Mean time adue ye Arts and Artists all The Spirits teaching may attend the Aul And thou brave Cobler blow another blast Upon their learning though thou blow thy LAST R. O. THE SVFFICIENCY OF THE SPIRITS TEACHING WITHOUT HVMANE LEARING The Text 2 PETER 3.16 As one that in all his Epistles speaks of these things in which ar some things hard to be understood which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest as they do also the other Scriptures unto their own destruction THese words that I am * By J.G. and S.B. Ministers of London allotted to speak from at this time have respect as it should seem to such things as the Apostle had spoken of before which things seem to me to be those that are contained from the beginning of the second Chapter to the end of the 13. verse of this third Chapter and the 14. verse contains Peters exhortation strengthened in the 15. verse by his Brother Pauls writings who in all his Epistles speaks of these things as of the † Christ second coming mentioned in all Pauls Epistles coming of the Lord Jesus and other things such as are herein contained among the which that is Pauls writings in his Epistles some things were hard to be understood and so indeed was the coming of Christ Iesus which it should seem was hard of them to be undersood and that appears by his earnest w●iting to the a 2 Thes 2. at the beginning Thessalonians where he exhorts them That they should not suddenly be moved neither by Word nor Epistle as it were from him as if the day of Christ were at hand for there were many things to be fulfilled first as a departure from the Faith the rising up the perfection and the consumption of the Man of Sin and this it should seem though he had told them of it before yet to them it was hard to be understood which had the true learning here meant which things they that were unlearned and unstalbe perverted as they did other Scriptures to their own destruction therefore the great thing here to be minded is to find out what this learning is that Peter here intends And secondly who they be that are the unlearned ones and by that we shall easily find who they be that are the perverters of the Scriptures to their own destruction For this end therefore I will consider what this learning is not and then what it is What learning it is not It is not Humane Learning That I may not be misconceived about it I will here lay down my understanding in it and by Humane Learning I do not mind the knowledg and understanding of our own language which every man of what Tongue soever he be might in some measure be taught of another as the Parents teach their Children and they learn of them of this there is a natural necessity as the Apostle saith How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard Now the hearing there mentioned Rom. 10.14 must needs be a natural hearing seeing it is set before Faith and this hearing must needs be the understanding of the sound of words spoken Now thus Peter and John and all the rest learned the foolish things spoken of 1 Cor. 1.21 And thus I acknowledge that there is none but in some measure have this learning and must of necessity have it to understand Gods mind in an ordinary way But by Humane Learning all along in this matter which I oppose it is the knowledge of Arts and Sciences divers Tongues and much reading and a persisting in these things so as thereby to be made able to understand the mind of God in his Word this is it that I condemn from the Word of Truth for being that by which any is made able spiritually to understand the mind of God which the Apostle saith cannot be attained to by the words which mans wisdome teacheth all which these excellencies are said to be ●or 2.13 So that by Humane Learning I do here understand that whereby certain men do excell and are far above and beyond other ordinary men and in this sense do I understand that the Councel judged Peter and John to be no such learned men Act. 4.13 For we in common speech do oppose a learned man to one that otherwise can read and write in his own Tongue though he do not understand the grounds of his own speech as the other man that is learned doth as may appear by the Book called the English Schoolmaster and so such learning do I not conceive to be here meant which I conclude for these reasons 1. Because that then Peter must of necessity condemn himself 1 Reason for he was a man that in the b Act. 4.13 Councels knowledge was such an unlearned